During coursework, I took a class co-offered both at my uni and at UIC. As a co-offered course, it was also co-taught, and one of the profs, Walter Benn Michaels, at one point, as is his wont, issued a seeming non sequitur of a command: “raise your hands if either of your parents is a [...]
My love of The Wire connects pretty well with my interest in David Harvey, who taught at Hopkins for a long time and treated Baltimore as an immense site for empirical geographical work. I also suspect that the show’s taking place in Baltimore is part of Walter Benn Michael’s fascination with it, which he’s polished [...]
